![]() Selecting "mirroring" WILL BREAK YOUR GOOGLE DRIVE if you have a large amount of files in your Google Photos archive. The new client also isn't able to deal with a ton of files and hangs while downloading your Google Photos folder (or does for me, repeatedly - I do have ~130,000 files with the google photos folder and ~40,000 without) The Google Photos folder is ~250Gb for me, which is big enough to fill a good portion of laptop drives out there. you are "streaming") or you have to have a disk big enough to mirror everything including your "Google Photos" folder. ![]() So either you lose the ability to have an offline copy of your Google Drive (i.e. With the latest client, you DO NOT have the ability to exclude folders from Google Drive file mirroring. So, for example, if you were being cheap and saving your entire library on your desktop PC as "High Quality" and just not syncing the "Google Photos" folder on your laptop. Tl dr, if you have a ton of files in Google Photos and want to keep using Google Drive, select "stream" and not "mirror" when they force the new client on you.
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